Darcus Howe, one of Britain’s most prominent anti-racism campaigners, has died in London aged 74. An uncompromising champion for racial justice and fierce opponent of police brutality, Howe was born in British-ruled Trinidad in 1943 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1961. He intended to study law at London’s Middle Temple, but abandoned his […]
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TULSA, Oklahoma (WJC) — Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose 1961 poem about the Nazi massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev helped to expose rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, died Saturday at 84. Yevtushenko passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had been a faculty member at the University of Tulsa since the mid-1990s.Some 34,000 Jews were
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Above all, said the eulogists on Sunday, April 2, Sandra Feller Golden was an educator. For example, said her son Jeffrey, “I can remember when I was three years old she was teaching me Shakespearean iambic pentameter…” When his own children on one occasion didn’t want to read with
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyLOS ANGELES — Under clear blue skies, hundreds of fans made the pilgrimage Saturday to Forest Lawn’s Hall of Liberty in the Hollywood Hills to pay tribute to actress Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds. “These were my girls …,” Todd Fisher, who helped organize the public memorial, told those who had gathered to
BALTIMORE — Cardinal William Henry Keeler, the longtime leader of the Archdiocese of Baltimore whose influence in the Catholic Church spanned international borders over nearly six decades, died Thursday. He had turned 86 this month. The retired archbishop of Baltimore, who led the region’s nearly 500,000 Catholics from 1989 until 2007, died while under the
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Obituaries & memorials, USAChuck Barris, “The Gong Show” creator and host who claimed — though never too seriously — that he doubled as a CIA assassin during the height of his game show popularity, has died at his home in Palisades, N.Y. He was 87. The popular game show creator, producer and host died Monday of natural causes,
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWashington (dpa) – The world’s oldest billionaire, David Rockefeller, has died in New York at age 101. He was the last-surviving grandson of Standard Oil founder John D Rockefeller. David Rockefeller died Monday at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York, according to a statement from family spokesman Fraser P Seitel, emailed to dpa. The
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Obituaries & memorials, USACHICAGO — Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a Chicago author who wrote a heart-wrenching column called “You May Want to Marry My Husband” while battling ovarian cancer, died Monday at 51. Rosenthal was a prolific creator described on her website as “a person who likes to make things.” That description includes children’s books and “grown-up books,” salads,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Obituaries & memorials, USAGeorge Olah, a USC chemist and Nobel laureate who found new ways to study previously imperceptible stages in hydrocarbon-related chemical reactions, has died at his Beverly Hills home at age 89. The Hungarian-born scientist’s research, which earned USC its first Nobel in 1994, fueled the advancement of cleaner-burning gasoline, improved oil refining and even led
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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & EducationRussia’s longtime envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died from a heart attack suffered inside his Manhattan office last month, a city official said Friday. The ambassador’s cause of death was confirmed by a senior city official on condition of anonymity Friday after the medical examiner’s office declined to release details about his passing
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International, Obituaries & memorials, USAJoni Sledge, who belonged to the four-sister disco-era group Sister Sledge, best known for its No. 1 hit “We Are Family,” died Friday at her home in Phoenix, a spokeswoman for the group announced. She was 60. No cause of death has been announced. “Yesterday, numbness fell upon our family,” said the Sledges in a
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti said goodbye Saturday to one of its most decorated and respected presidents, Rene Preval, in a Catholic ceremony spanning almost three hours. Just as in life, Preval, in death, brought together Haitians of all colors, socioeconomic standings and political leanings as peasant organizations paid tribute by wearing of traditional straw hats — a
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International, Obituaries & memorialsWere it not for the renegade work of club owner, Hollywood producer and self-described showman Fred Weintraub, the lives of Bruce Lee, Frankie Valli, Neil Diamond, Richard Pryor and Woody Allen, to say nothing of the mud-encrusted hippies Weintraub captured in the film “Woodstock,” might have taken other turns. Weintraub died Sunday, leaving a legacy
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USARabbi Zecharia Barashi, who was reportedly the oldest person in Israel, passed away in Jerusalem aged 117. His wife and 3 of his 8 children died during his lifetime. He is survived by 29 grandchildren, 72 great-grandchildren and 24 great-great-grandchildren. Barashi was born to a rabbinic family in the town of Barashi, Kurdistan in 1900,
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